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Would anyone here put their scan picture on facebook?

Well seeing as I only have close friends/family on mine, yes I would & I did.

i did with my first and now this one but thats for my friends and family to see!
its very sad that some people find it upsetting but we cant hide our happiness and excitment just encase we upsett or offend people I wouldnt exspect other people to feel guilty about any of my personal circumstances sad sad things happen to good people when it comes to babies and pregnancy and people close to you probally feel guilty enough. but when there happy time comes they wouldnt want to feel they cant share etc encase they offend.its your happy moment and you celebraye and announce it however you please xx

I put my 20 week scan up as I hadn't told anyone yet and thought it would be an easy way to get it over with!

I think what people post on FB only really reflects what they are like in real life. I don't know anyone who posts up their scan pictures who wouldn't also be the type to keep in it in their wallet and show you if you bumped into them in the street!! Now if you are the type that would avoid them in the street - why are you friends with them on FB!!! I am always happy to see a scan picture, a newborn picture or another update about what mummy and little Georgie have been up to in the park even though i haven't posted a pickie of my dearest little boy on FB for about a year and a half (he is now 2). Just to add, i had a MC last year which was the worst experience of my life but my views have not changed. And i have every intention of posting my new born bubba picks up (as i did before) in the next couple of weeks (am 40+3).

I most certainly will not be putting my DS scan pictures on Facebook, it is a privacy thing. People disclose far too much on Facebook and the such, then complain when the world and it?s wife pass judgement. xx

I'm still undecided. Ask me again in 5 weeks :)

I did - but I don't add anyone to Facebook who I wouldn't go for a drink with if I was in the same area as them. You can't google my Facebook profile or search for me on Facebook and you can't add me if I haven't added you already.

Even then I locked the photo down out of sensitivity's sake - a friend was miscarrying the day I found out I was pregnant and I didn't want to make her feel worse. And I don't have it as my profile pic (that I find a bit weird - I wouldn't make an x-ray scan my profile picture, for example, so I wouldn't use a picture of my uterus either!)

Of course plenty of people already knew I was pregnant; I had HG from the word go and it was very difficult to hide. I haven't posted any bump pictures either, cos it just doesn't seem that interesting...! (unlike my husband's 17 year-old cousin, who posts bump pics weekly of her washboard flat stomach, bless her)

No. Because you don't know what other people are going through. Having suffered infertility and losses (v similar to peanuthead plus a mc as well) I would hate to upset anyone going through similar. It just isn't tactful or nice.
Posting a picture of the baby once born is somehow different although I would keep smug status updates to a minimum. Again having been there myself I wouldn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

God no! Every time one pops up I cringe.

I did because I think my family and friends would be interested in my life in the same way as I am in theirs. That said, I'm ruthless with my friends list and only have good friends and family on there, no passing acquaintances.

In addition, we live on the other side of the world to a lot of our friends and all of our family, so it was nice to be able to share the news and scan pictures with them.

It's disappointing that people feel that because they have had losses that other people's happiness is not justified and the action of posting a picture is somehow callous. If somebody had lost a friend or relative through drowning, would you think it inappropriate to post pictures to a trip to the beach? Do they think that somebody else having a baby has had any affect on them losing a baby, like there're a finite number of babies to go around? I lost my previous pregnancy but I'd hope that it didn't make people feel that I couldn't be happy for them or share their joy. I'd think that way of thinking would be more selfish and cold than posting up a couple of scan pics.

When I first read this post a couple of days ago I thought that yes I probably would put my scan pics up, but only because I live several hundreds of miles from my family & good friends. However I spent all of yesterday at the hospital & I have now miscarried for the 2nd time. Went onto Facebook this morning and a friend has posted to announce their pregnancy with a scan pic. I am now sat here in floods of tears as that is what I should have seen yesterday. So I know this isn't normal but please think of others before you put a pic up, especially if you don't particularly know them all that well. And it's not that I'm not happy for my friend, probably just very bad timing on my half to look at Facebook.